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Post holiday depression set in soon after i arrived back in Melbourne. It has stayed with me for a long long time. Yes this is going to be one of those posts where people complain about not being back on holiday and not appreciating what they have. Sure i can go on and on about all the friends i am seeing after 5 months of holidays, but that’s no comfort. I miss Europe and the people there really miss Prague and the great time I had there.

With that said i have been doing NOTHING since back at home. sleeping 6 hours a day, playing playstation 3, and going out taking photos. The inspiration for photos has stopped and the dream of moving to Europe take over my thoughts. With lack of things going on in my life I have left things slip. my blog, flickr, and tumblr. All these things have slipped on the wayside.

But things are changing Big things are happening.

Here’s a few photos that I have done with the help of friends. Photos are the only thing keeping me sane at the moment.

So while in Milan I didn’t get much sleep and t all caught up with me when I arrived in florence. the first day in florence I was dead tired and coming down with a flu or a cold. so i spent the day in the hotel alone and watched the avengers on the computer.

That night I got really bored and still didn’t feel like leaving the hotel. What does one do when they are sick and stuck in a crappy hotel?

well the answer is take photos of yourself and have a night of sitting in front of the laptop listening to music and Photoshop them. FUN!

The holiday was/is going really well. Whilst in berlin a few mates and i were going to go on a road trip through czech republic, austria and a couple of other countries. when we arrived in prague we noticed this MASSIVE TV tower sticking out like dogs balls. It was so ugly and yet so beautiful at the same time we had to go and see it up close. we drive to it and noticed that there were statues of babies crwaling up the tower.

On closer inspection we saw that they had no faces and they looked ‘bashed in’

This was weird and interesting at the same time. We didnt expect to see this in prague. My mate looked up on the internet who made the statues and we saw that he had done other stuff around the city. it was too late to go visit them all as we had to leave.

The second time i was in prague i had to go see all of the art wrok that the artise david cerny made.

The photo below is the main statue on the war memorial. it’s of a Russian soldier holding a child whilst crusing a swastika with his foot.

There were lots of murals carved in stone depicting various parts of WW2. This one caught my eye. The powerful image of a frail woman with a walking stick as planes come in and drop bombs near her. the woman to the right looks as if she’s crying on the ruins of a bomed out building.

We went into the old olympic village here in berlin. Sure you can do a tour but that’s no fun. We wanted to go and explore it on our own and not pay the 12 euros to get in. We we walked around the fence to find a way in. The fence was down in one section and we were in. success.

Walked around for about 45 mins then we got busted by security and the guy who in charge of keeping it maintained. The head guy yelling at us and carrying on about how we aren’t allowed to be in there. Blah blah blah is all i heard till he mentioned he is going to call the cops. We told him that it wasn’t needed and we will leave.

NOPE. He called the cops and we waited for about 20 mins till they came. Mind you that it started to piss dwon with rain and he didn’t let us have shealter under the trees. The cops came and were awesome. They didn’t want to be there dealing with us and tried to hurry it up and let us go without an arrest.

The head guy didn’t want to let us go. He told the police to look at out photos on the camera.There were photos from inside one of the buildings and some from a window we had taken.Head guy kept tellnig the police that we were in that building and the cops kept telling him that we weren’t you could clearly see it from the photos. Then the head guy and the police walked away and talked for about 10-15 mins. one of the cops came back and said that he was trying to sort it out with the guy so we can leave. head guy was really pissed. He must have had a sleep

head guy decided to prosecute and we were taken to the police station in the back of the car. AWESOME!!!!!!!

At the police station the cops and us were talknig and making chit chat. They said sorry that they had to process us but they had to because they were called out.

it started raining again and lighting was beeing seen form inside of the police station. everready said something in german and asked one of the cops if it’s the right word for lightning. The cops said yes. I looked at everready and said “this isn’t the best time to practice your german” i laughted and so did everyone else including the cops.

so after two hours at the police station it was time to pay the fine. we didn’t have enough money on us. one of the cops was going to drive us to the ATM. as I was leaving i said to KoD ” don’t go anywhere, we’ll be right back” everyone laughed again.

while leaving being prcessed and as we were leaving the staion one of the police men said that he hopes this doesnt put of off germany and that we will be back.

that was our experience at the old olympic village because we didn’t want to pay the 12 euros.

While in the kindergarten we came across a few of these small gas masks that the children would have worn. It must have been a traumatic experience for the little boys and girls not knowing whats going on and why they have to wear these masks.